User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Disclaimer
- Contact
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to MASCHINE
- Quick Reference
- Basic Concepts
- Important Names and Concepts
- Adjusting the MASCHINE User Interface
- Common Operations
- Adjusting Volume, Swing, and Tempo
- Undo/Redo
- Focusing on a Group or a Sound
- Switching Between the Master, Group, and Sound Level
- Navigating Channel Properties, Plug-ins, and Parameter Pages in the Control Area
- Navigating the Software Using the Controller
- Using Two or More Hardware Controllers
- Loading a Recent Project from the Controller
- Native Kontrol Standard
- Stand-Alone and Plug-in Mode
- Preferences
- Integrating MASCHINE into a MIDI Setup
- Syncing MASCHINE using Ableton Link
- Browser
- Browser Basics
- Searching and Loading Files from the Library
- Overview of the Library Pane
- Selecting or Loading a Product and Selecting a Bank from the Browser
- Selecting a Product Category, a Product, a Bank, and a Sub-Bank
- Selecting a File Type
- Choosing Between Factory and User Content
- Selecting Type and Character Tags
- Performing a Text Search
- Loading a File from the Result List
- Additional Browsing Tools
- Using Favorites in the Browser
- Editing the Files’ Tags and Properties
- Loading and Importing Files from Your File System
- Locating Missing Samples
- Using Quick Browse
- Managing Sounds, Groups, and Your Project
- Playing on the Controller
- Working with Plug-ins
- Plug-in Overview
- The Sampler Plug-in
- Using Native Instruments and External Plug-ins
- Using the Audio Plug-in
- Using the Drumsynths
- Using the Bass Synth
- Working with Patterns
- Audio Routing, Remote Control, and Macro Controls
- Controlling Your Mix
- Using Effects
- Effect Reference
- Working with the Arranger
- Arranger Basics
- Using Ideas View
- Using Song View
- Section Management Overview
- Creating Sections
- Assigning a Scene to a Section
- Selecting Sections and Section Banks
- Reorganizing Sections
- Adjusting the Length of a Section
- Clearing a Pattern in Song View
- Duplicating Sections
- Removing Sections
- Renaming Scenes
- Clearing Sections
- Creating and Deleting Section Banks
- Working with Patterns in Song view
- Enabling Auto Length
- Looping
- Playing with Sections
- Triggering Sections or Scenes via MIDI
- The Arrange Grid
- Quick Grid
- Sampling and Sample Mapping
- Appendix: Tips for Playing Live
- Troubleshooting
- Glossary
- Index
Selecting Multiple Zones in the List
You can select several Zones in the list at once using the common methods of your operating
system. The basic rules for multiple selection are the following:
▪ The focused Zone is automatically selected. It is highlighted in the color of the Sound and
its waveform and parameters are displayed in the Slice page’s Sample view and Zone set-
tings as well as on the Edit and Slice pages.
▪ The other selected Zones are highlighted in white. Their settings are not displayed any-
where, however they will be affected by your actions in the Zone List and in the Map view
(see section ↑17.5.4, Selecting and Editing Zones in the Map View for more on this).
Mouse/Keyboard Action Command
Multiple Selection
Hold [Ctrl] ([Cmd] on macOS) and
click several entries in the list
Selects all clicked Zones. Click a selected Zone to
deselect it (i.e. remove it from the selection).
Hold [Shift] and click two entries Selects both Zones and all Zones in-between.
Press [Ctrl]+[A] ([Cmd]+[A] on
macOS)
Selects/deselects all Zones in the list. When
deselecting, only the focused Zone remains selected.
Deleting Zones from the List
To remove one or more Zone(s) from the Zone List:
1. Select the Zone(s) you want to remove.
2. Press [Del] or [Backspace] on your computer keyboard.
→ The selected Zones are removed from the Zone List and from the Sample Map, and the
corresponding Samples are not used in the Sound anymore.
After you have selected the Zone(s) you want to remove, you can also use the context menu:
1. Select the Zone(s) you want to remove.
Sampling and Sample Mapping
Mapping Samples to Zones
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